In plain words
This very earth … giving food and a place to move about to every living being. It is the earth that gives man these crops and fruits in the form of food. … living being comes forth from the earth itself. Without the earth there are no living beings at all. So the earth is a great support for man's … . The earth is the third form of God.
Now the fourth is ākāśa. Ākāśa means what gives avakāśa, room: that is ākāśa. The quality of this … is sound. God, the embodiment of sound, is present in all beings as the embodiment of sound: in the in-breath and out-breath … , in speech, in everything. In this … sound (making a sound): this too is ākāśa. I am speaking. This too is … . Without this room called sound there is no ākāśa. This sound fills everything. … sound is the fourth form of God.
Now what remains. The sun, the moon and the rest are there in sound, touch, form and smell. The sun appears as a figure, but it is through him alone that everything comes about. The whole world stands only by the hydrogen that … from this sun. The fifth is fire. If you ask yourselves … fire … … is, you pray every day:
Ahaṃ vaiśvānaro bhūtvā prāṇināṃ dehamāśritaḥ prāṇāpāna samāyuktaḥ pacāmyannaṃ caturvidham.
The answer comes, ‘… am in your very stomach in the form of Vaiśvānara.’ It digests well all the … you have eaten, turns it into blood, and changing it into muscles, nerves and bones, turns it into the seven dhātus. If this fire itself were not within, in the stomach, the … dhātus could not live at all. It is through these seven dhātus that human beings … their humanness. Within the principle of the sun there is not only fire alone; giving … , he creates … . He gives grain. Water without taste he takes up … his own place, turns it to vapour, turns it into sweet water and gives it back again as water to drink. If there were no sun, no one could drink sea water, for its salt. He turns it into vapour, … and shapes the clouds, pours them down as rain, makes it flow as a river, and so gladdens all living beings. … river. A flow of Ānanda. Bliss. Where does this river called bliss come from? It comes from the rain called Love drops. It is only because drop upon drop, drop upon drop, gathers that this … river flows.